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John MacKay deposited Province of Universality: Vertov before the War (1896-1914) in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOn Dziga Vertov’s early life and the city (Bialystok) and situations in which he grew up.
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to members of the forum on Visual Culture:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Al…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new examinations of her entire body…[Read more]
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Anna M. Klobucka started the topic Call for submissions for the Journal of Feminist Scholarship in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research. The journal can be found at http://www.jfsonline.org/.
The editors of JFS invite submissions on a…[Read more]
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Gema Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Convocatoria para enviar propuestas IV Jornadas de ALCESXXI Julio 4-8 de 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSEMINARIO DE TRABAJO Y ESTUDIO: “Acercamientos transnacionales y afectivos al estudio del género y la sexualidad en la literatura y la cultura visual contemporáneas en el Estado Español”
Fecha de envío de propuestas: 10 de agosto de 2016
<u>Organizadores:</u>
Alfredo Martínez-Expósito (m@unimelb.edu.au), Head of School of Languages and Lingu…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas uploaded the file: Cfps. NACS Colloquium to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017). The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2016.
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Edgar Illas started the topic Cfps. NACS Colloquium in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoPlease find under files the Cfps. for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exa…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell uploaded the file: CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection, DEADLINE 12/1/16) to
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAbstracts are sought for an edited collection on the comics of Alison Bechdel for the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists series at UP of Mississippi. Interdisciplinary approaches welcome; deadline 12/1/16
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Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
This review only analyzes the work as a u…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Call for proposals, for a new series from Medieval Institute Publications to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
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Erin K. Hogan started the topic CFP NeMLA 2017: Hispanic Filmmaking in English? in the discussion
Cinemas of Spain & Latin America on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers: Hispanic Filmmaking in English?
North East Modern Language Association (NeMLA) in Baltimore, MD – March 23-26, 2017
The Oscar-winning directors and pictures of the past three years–Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman and The Revenant–call more attention to a growing trend of filmmakers bo…[Read more]
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Erin K. Hogan started the topic CFP NeMLA 2017: The Child in the Gothic Mode of Hispanic Cinema in the discussion
Cinemas of Spain & Latin America on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThe aim of this proposed paper panel session is to explore new interpretations of the Gothic mode’s child characters in the cinema of Spain and Latin America by departing from the theoretical “haunts” in existing criticism. Readings that engage with the paradigms of Derridean hauntology, pioneered by Jo Labanyi, and historical memory have preva…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Annabel Kim deposited Marie Darrieussecq’s Clèves: A Wittigian Rewriting of Adolescence in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoMarie Darrieussecq’s Clèves (2011) shocked readers with the vulgarity of its language and spurred controversy over its status as a literary text. In this article, I show how the novel’s “bad” language is a foil for Darrieussecq’s larger project of rewriting the adolescent female body, removing it from the sexualized and objectified optic through…[Read more]
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Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Cinemas of Spain & Latin America on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Revisiting E. E. Cummings' Paintings at Brockport in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe article focuses on the restoration of the collections of paintings and drawings of E. E. Cummings in Brockport, New York. It is inferred that the Hildegarde Lasell Watson Collection has sustained a mass of damage over the last 25 years, and that efforts for its conservation have consistently been delayed. It discusses the contents and the…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoBetween 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]
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